Brave today unveiled Chat mode for Brave Search, where you can ask a follow-up question to the answer. While Google has introduced AI summaries, it has no after-summarize chat option. Brave is filling the gap between search engines and chatbots. Of course, the Brave browser also focuses on privacy, does not store queries, and does not use them to track users. Boasting over 36M daily searches and 11M AI-sourced responses per day, Brave continues to push the envelope regarding private, accessible development.
Brave Search Chat Mode
This new experience, Brave says, is triggered by both open and internal LLMs, rendering the “chat-first versus search-first dilemma” irrelevant. That means search engines are suitable for finding images, links, and information; AI chatbots are useful for discussing the topic using related questions depending on the context. Brave has now featured two kinds of tools, and it is combining them with this latest addition.
Such search engines are suitable for web image searches, links, and information from a single search phrase. However, other restrictions are severe: follow-up questions are either impossible or are answered without reference to the previous question, so each query begins from the beginning anew.
Chat applications, on the other hand, support only conversational interactions, which are also useful to go through the topics in the series of related questions and keep the context intact. But they aren’t built for casual Internet searching; typing in a query that will return results similar to a traditional search requires a settings switch or special query entry.
Brave Search is free, as is Answer with AI and Chat mode. In the same way as with Google Chrome, if you’re using Brave and the default search engine is set to the one provided by Brave, you will also be able to start the search right from the address line. If not, you can simply open Brave Search with any browser and try it out in that manner.